Jack Edwards

William Jackson "Jack" Edwards (20 September 1928-27 September 2019) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-AL 1) from 3 January 1965 to 3 January 1985, succeeding Frank W. Boykin and preceding Sonny Callahan.

Biography
William Jackson Edwards was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1928, and he served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War. In 1964, he was one of five Republicans elected to the US Congress from Alabama amid Barry Goldwater's sweep of the state in that year's presidential election. He was re-elected nine times and served under five American presidents, and he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1968 due to his support for segregation and later masterminded and strongly supported President Ronald Reagan's military buildup during the 1980s. He left the US House of Representatives in 1985 and died at his home in Fairhope in 2019 at the age of 91.